Psalms 119:75 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ I know, O LORD, that thy judgments are right,h and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me. ”

• Psalms 119:75 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  I know, O Lord - I feel assured; I entertain no doubt on the subject. This was the conviction of the mind of the psalmist in affliction. Mysterious as the trial may have been, hard as it may have...

  Read the comments

• Psalms 119:75 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  CXIX. Praise of the Law. This is the longest and most artificial Ps. in the whole collection. It is divided into twenty-two strophes, each beginning with one of the twenty-two letters of the Heb. a...

  Read the comments

• Psalms 119:75 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  right . righteousness, as in Psalms 119:7 . afflicted . humbled.

  Read the comments

• Psalms 119:75 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  75 I have known, O Jehovah / that thy judgments are justice. By judgments, in this psalm, we are to understand the precepts of the law; but as the prophet immediately adds, that he was ju...

  Read the comments

• Psalms 119:75 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  I know, O LORD, that thy judgments are right, and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me. I know - that thy judgments are right - All the dispensations of thy providence are laid in wisdom,...

  Read the comments

• Psalms 119:75 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  I know, O LORD, that thy judgments are right, and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me. I know, O Lord, that thy judgments are right (literally, righteousness), and that thou in faithf...

  Read the comments

• Psalms 119:75 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The longest Ps. and the best example of an alphabetical Ps. There are in it twenty-two stanzas; each of the 8 vv. of each stanza commences with the same Hebrew letter. The subject is practically the...

  Read the comments

• Psalms 119:75 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  See Psalms 119:67-71 .

  Read the comments

• Psalms 119:75 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  Psalms 119:1-176 IT is lost labour to seek for close continuity or progress in this psalm. One thought pervades it-the surpassing excellence of the Law; and the beauty and power of the psalm lie i...

  Read the comments

• Psalms 119:75 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Profiting from Affliction Psalms 119:65-80 Before I was afflicted, I went astray; it is good for me that I have been afflicted; thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me . Here is the far-off in...

  Read the comments

• Psalms 119:75 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Any dealing with this psalm must necessarily be general and not particular. It has been called the psalm of the Law, not inaccurately; but the term, "The Law," should be understood in its widest sign...

  Read the comments

• Psalms 119:75 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  JOD. With most peculiar reference to the ever-blessed Jesus must we read the opening of this portion. A body hast thou prepared me, was said by Christ when beholding the redemption work he came to p...

  Read the comments

• Psalms 119:75 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  I know, O Lord, that thy judgments [are] right ,.... His word, the doctrines and precepts of it, they are all consistent with the holiness and righteousness of God; and so are his judgments on wicke...

  Read the comments

• Psalms 119:75 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  I know, O LORD, that thy judgments [are] right, and [that] thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me. Ver. 75. I know, O Lord, that thy judgments are right ] That is, that I suffer deservedly. To the...

  Read the comments

• Psalms 119:75 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  I know, O Lord By the convictions of my own conscience, and by experience; that thy judgments are right That thy corrections, as the next clause explains this, are just and proper, and that thou...

  Read the comments

• Psalms 119:75 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        75 I know, O L ORD , that thy judgments are right, and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me.       Still David is in affliction, and being so he owns, 1. That his sin was justly...

  Read the comments

• Psalms 119:75 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  I know by the convictions of my own conscience, and by experience. Thy judgments, i.e. thy corrections, as the next clause explains this. In faithfulness; in pursuance of thy promises, and in o...

  Read the comments

• Psalms 119:75 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  INTRODUCTION 1. Date and authorship. Some ascribe the authorship to “David, before his accession to the kingdom, in exile and peril ( Psalms 119:9 ; Psalms 119:23 ; Psalms 119:46 ; Psalms 119:141...

  Read the comments

• Psalms 119:75 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  In this Psalm we have, as it were, notes from David's pocket book. Psalms 119:73 . Thy hands have made me and fashioned me: give me understanding, that I may learn thy commandments. This is a ve...

  Read the comments

• Psalms 119:75 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  That David was the author of this psalm, no one ever doubted. It is divided into twenty two octo-distichs, having a letter of the Hebrew alphabet at the head of each distich; and the couplets are mos...

  Read the comments

• Psalms 119:75 - The Biblical Illustrator

  They that fear Thee will be glad when they nee me; because I have hoped in Thy Word. The good man I. The spiritual interest of the good in each other (verse 74). In what, concerning each other,...

  Read the comments

• Psalms 119:75 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION This is an "alphabetic psalm" of a more stringent character than any other. It consists of twenty-two stanzas, each of eight verses, every verse in each stanza beginning with its own...

  Read the comments

• Psalms 119:75 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Jod. The Consolation of God's Providence and Government.

  Read the comments

• Psalms 119:75 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Deuteronomy 32:4 ; Genesis 18:25 ; Hebrews 12:10 ; Hebrews 12:11 ; Jeremiah 12:1 ; Job 34:23 ; Psalms 25:10 ; Psalms 89:30-33 ; Revelation 3:19 ; Romans 3:4 ; Romans 3:5

  Read the comments

• Psalms 119:75 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Judgments — Thy corrections. Of faithfulness — In pursuance of thy promises, and in order to my good.

  Read the comments